 This is one of the finest Elizabethan mansions in the country and was designed for Sir Edward Phelips.Other works include the remodelling of a hunting lodge at Cranborne to form the Manor House for Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury in 1607–1610.He was then commissioned in 1610–1613 by Dorothy Wadham, a Somerset resident, to design and oversee the building of Wadham College, Oxford.